A deliberate affront or slight.

A sudden checking of a cable or rope.

(transitive) To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.

(transitive) To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.

(transitive) To check; to reprimand.

(transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).

(transitive) To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.

(transitive) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.

To sob with convulsions.

Conspicuously short.

(of a nose) Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.

(mathematics, of a polyhedron) Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.